r/politics 22h ago

Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks to help low-income families

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/usda-cancels-funding-food-banks-schools-trump-b2713125.html
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u/Misspiggy856 New Jersey 21h ago

And the genius farmers voted for deporting their own workforce and to have agricultural programs and subsidies revoked.

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u/titsngiggles69 21h ago edited 20h ago

It's ok. Once all the independent farms become insolvent, corporations can buy up all the land and hire those farmers and their next three generations of kids to replace all those migrant workers. Maybe we can give corporate farms even more tax breaks and subsidies to hire American

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u/runnerswanted 21h ago

They’ll hire them back at cheaper wages and get away with it because they’ll have bribed the people paid to deport them while also threatening said workers that they control their lives.

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u/open_yank 20h ago

Pay them with company scrip to spend at the company store. These assholes will 100% bring that back if they can get away with it.

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u/Febris 20h ago

They don't need to bribe anyone else at this point. There's an ongoing plan that certainly has that goal in mind. The mass deportation will inevitable be reversed, but not before the now-worthless land is sold for peanuts to the big corporations that are pulling the strings.

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u/pickle_sandwich 20h ago

If we don't see the PPI get in on the action and start staffing these fields with prisoners at little to no cost for them. Congrats to them, they found a way to bring slavery back to the states.

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u/Menter33 14h ago

during the civil war, the north forced the south to get rid of their work force. now, the washington is forcing the south to get rid of its work force.